Jorge López

headshot: Jorge Lopez

Position Title
2019-20 Practitioner-in-Residence

Bio

Jorge López is a teacher of history and ethnic studies at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, and currently an education doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University. His dissertation focuses on the impact of critical ethnic studies on high school Latinx youth, and examines ethnic studies curriculum and pedagogy that centers youth narratives and testimonios. His interests also include community activism, social justice education, critical race theory, and humanizing pedagogies.